HV Maintenance Engineer - Systems Integrator

Hamilton Barnes; Texas; On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Restricted stock vesting over three+3

Medical, dental and vision premiums

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited seeks a High Voltage Maintenance Engineer to shape data center electrical design and support reliable operations. You will own HV substation and MV distribution work, coordinating with trades and technical teams, reporting to the VP of Engineering.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, design review, troubleshooting, and project delivery with a focus on reliability and capacity planning for critical facilities in the US market.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of related experience.
• Broad experience in operations and maintenance of high voltage substations and medium voltage distribution.
• Knowledge of protection and control systems for HV substations including transformers, breakers and protection relays.
• Strong troubleshooting with root cause analysis and ability to read electrical schematics.
• Willing to work hands-on with trades and staff, with flexibility for outside normal hours.
• Strong leadership and communication skills; self-driven with limited direction.

Responsibilities

• Support project development with design meetings and collaboration with site and corporate staff and external engineering partners.
• Review and validate drawings and technical reports from consultants, manufacturers, engineering firms and commissioning agents, acting as technical Owner's representative.
• Lead or support construction, installation and commissioning activities in the electrical space, and lead complex electrical engineering tasks through to completion.
• Monitor system operations from an electrical perspective, ensuring sites run within parameters and to the highest standard of reliability and utilization.
• Perform detailed analysis and calculations to support reliable operations, capacity planning and real-time system limitations.
• Provide second-level troubleshooting support to site staff, and coach and provide feedback on electrical matters.

Skills

Electrical engineering

HV substations

Protection & control

Root cause analysis

Reading schematics

Hands-on leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a leading AI Cloud Service Provider delivering large-scale GPU clusters for AI training and inference through a vertically integrated platform of grid-connected land and data centres in renewable-rich regions across the US and Canada.

The company is looking for a High Voltage Maintenance Engineer to help shape future data centre designs while supporting reliable operations, generating ideas, communicating recommendations to senior management, and driving implementation alongside facilities technicians. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, the role offers a hands-on opportunity to take real ownership of high voltage substation and medium voltage distribution systems, working closely with trades and technical teams across the business.

Responsibilities:

• Support project development, attending design meetings and working collaboratively with site and corporate staff and external engineering partners
• Review and validate drawings and technical reports from consultants, manufacturers, engineering firms and commissioning agents, acting as technical Owner's representative
• Lead or support construction, installation and commissioning activities in the electrical space, and lead complex electrical engineering tasks through to completion
• Monitor system operations from an electrical perspective, ensuring sites run within parameters and to the highest standard of reliability and utilization
• Perform detailed analysis and calculations to support reliable operations, capacity planning and real-time system limitations
• Provide second-level troubleshooting support to site staff, and coach and provide feedback on electrical matters

Skills/Must Have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, with 5+ years' related experience
• Broad experience in operations and maintenance of high voltage substations and medium voltage distribution, ideally within an electrical utility or heavy industrial setting
• Knowledge of protection and control systems as applied to high voltage substations and apparatus, including transformers, circuit breakers and protection relays
• Strong troubleshooting ability, with root cause analysis experience and comfortable reading electrical control diagrams and schematics
• Willing to work hands-on alongside trades and technical staff, with flexibility to support outside normal hours for key project activities or system events
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder skills; self-driven and comfortable with uncertainty and limited direction

Benefits:

• Annual performance bonus
• Restricted stock (equity) vesting over three years and growing in value as the company scales
• 100% company-paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees, 75% for dependents
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off plus paid holidays

Salary:

• Up to $150,000 base